Tales of Royalty : Notions of Kingship in Visual and Textual Narration in the Ancient Near East
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Ambos, Claus
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Bonatz, Dominik , [MitwirkendeR] Brisch, Nicole Maria , [MitwirkendeR] Couturaud, Barbara , [MitwirkendeR] Heinz, Marlies , [MitwirkendeR] Morales Macedo, Carlos, 1888- , [MitwirkendeR] Linke, Julia, , [HerausgeberIn] May, Natalie N. (Natalie Naomi) , [MitwirkendeR] Niehr, Herbert , [MitwirkendeR] Richardson, Seth Francis Corning, 1968- , [MitwirkendeR] Wagner, Elisabeth , [HerausgeberIn] Weiershäuser, Frauke , [MitwirkendeR] |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2020].
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (325 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781501506895 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781501506895 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Tales of Royalty (Print version) |
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Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Part I: Introduction
- Bound by Stories?! Narration as a Strategy of Royal Legitimation: An Introduction
- Part II: The Righteous Guided King: Tales of the Wise, the Pious, and the Lawful One
- “Pious Shepherd” and “Guardian of Truth”: In Search of the Narrative Visualization of the Kings’ Piety and Righteousness
- The Literate King Reconsidered: Self-representation, Wisdom, and Learnedness
- Response: Das Narrativ vom guten König
- Part III: Tell Me How to Live – Narrating Royal Building Activities in the Ancient Near East
- Building, Arts, and Politics: Narrative Elements in the Depiction of “Building Kings”
- Narratives of Building Activities as an Element of Royal Legitimation
- Response
- Part IV: Warrior Tales: The Royal Hero in the Ancient Near East
- Kings or Soldiers? Representations of Fighting Heroes at the End of the Early Bronze Age
- Der Feldzugsbericht in Šū-Sîns Königsinschriften im Vergleich zu Verwaltungsurkunden: Die Grenze zwischen Erzählung und Geschichte im Rahmen der Königsdarstellung
- Response: Two Tales of Royalty, Or the Intermediality of Image and Text in the Third millennium BCE
- Part V: Case Studies
- Strategies of Legitimation of the Aramaean Kings in Ancient Syria: Three Case Studies on Damascus, Hamath and Yādiya/Samʾal
- “The True Image of the God…:” Adoration of the King’s Image, Assyrian Imperial Cult and Territorial Control
- Part VI: Categories and Concepts: Legitimacy and Narration Put to Test
- Down with “Legitimacy”: On “Validity” and Narrative in Royal Tales
- Narratology: Selected Terms and Concepts with a Focus on the Ancient Near East
- Part VII: Conclusion
- Why Study “Narration” in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Assyriology? – Potentials and Limitations
- List of Contributors
- Indices
